Improvement in lamp-burners



J. MAGOUN.

Lamp Burner.

Patented Jan. 5, 1864.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MAGOUN, OF EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEWV ENGLAND GLASS COMPANY.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAM P-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 L179, dated January 5, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH MAGOUN,a resident of East Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to burners for lamps, especially those for burning kerosene; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes atop view, and Figs. 2 and 3 transverse sections, of a burner containing the said invention.

My improved burnerhas its body and wicktube cap confined together by means of the wick-tube,without any solder being employed to accomplish the connection, the wick-tube being formed with main and counter shoulders punched or struck up from it, substantially as hereinafter described. Furthermore, in my said improved burner I have a new arrangement and application of an annular spring for operating or moving the catch or latch of the deflector and chimney.

In the drawings, A denotes the body of the burner, such body having the form denoted in the drawings. B is the wick-tube; C, the circular or annular spring; D, the wick-tube cap or supporter, and E the latch of the de fiector and chimney.

In constructing the burner the wick-tube is to be made with a set of shoulders, a a, projecting from its outer edges, and formed by punching the metal outward from its inside surface. Having arranged the bell-shaped cap D in its place within the body A, and so as to rest on the lower part thereof, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the wick-tube is to be inserted into the said cap and bottom of the body until the main shoulders may rest on the top of the cap, after which counter-shoulders b b are to bethrown, punched, or forced out from the metal of which the tube is composed, and so as to rest or bear against the outer surface of the bottom a of the body A. These shoulders and counter-shoulders operate to confine the cap D, the body A, and the wick-tube together.

underneath the middle of the spring 0. When the spring is raised by the catch, such spring at its bends e 6 will be borne downward upon the bearing 9, which, with the projections f f and the cap D, will operate to maintain the spring firmly in position. The arrangement of the spring is such that it it extends in opposite directions from the latch or catch E, and nearly around the inner circumference of the body, and finally projects from the latter toward and extends into the cap, it (the said spring) being applied to thebody so as to rest at the bends e 6 directly on the shelf, or the part 9 thereof.

1. The improved burner as having its body, wick-tube cap or supporter, and wick-tube confined together by means of main and counter shoulders struck or punched up from the wick-tube, as specified.

2. My improved arrangement and application of the spring 0 relatively to thebody A, the cap D, and the catch E, the whole being substantially as explained.

JOSEPH MAGOUN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

